Traits to stay, traits to move: a review of functional traits to assess sensitivity and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal trees to climate change
By I. Aubin, A. Munson, F. Cardou, P. Burton, N. Isabel, J. Pedlar, A. Paquette, A. Taylor, S. Delagrange, H. Kebli and 6 more. 2016
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The integration of functional traits into vulnerability assessments is a promising approach to quantitatively capture differences in species sensitivity and adaptive capacity to climate change, allowing the refinement of tree species distribution models. In response to a clear need to identify traits that are responsive to climate change and applicable in a management context, we review the state of knowledge of the main mechanisms, and their associated traits, that underpin the ability of boreal and temperate tree species to persist and (or) shift their distribution in a changing climate. We aimed to determine whether current knowledge is sufficiently mature and available to be used effectively in vulnerability assessments. Marshalling recent conceptual advances and assessing data availability, our ultimate objective is to guide modellers and practitioners in finding and selecting sets of traits that can be used to capture differences in species’ ability to persist and migrate. While the physiological me...
Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change
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- Disturbances amplify tree community responses to climate change in the temperate–boreal ecotone (2019, background): “The interaction between climate and disturbances is likely to promote generalist tree species adapted to disturbances, with high dispersal abilities (Aubin et al., 2016).”